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|f_annotation= | |f_annotation='''TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN FOX CHASE.''' American, Reel (cut time). USA, Tennessee. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Silberberg): AABBCC' (Phillips): AA'BB'CC' (Reiner (Anick). Hunting motifs have lent themselves to descriptive musical pieces in several genres of traditional music on both sides of the Atlantic (c.f. the various “Fox Chase” tunes). “Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase” was recorded in 1927 by fiddler Dudley Vance and his group the Tennessee Breakdowners. Vance, a regionally popular fiddler from Bluff City, eastern Tennessee, travelled 150 miles to a recording session in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where the Breakdowners recorded six sides for OKeh Records (although only two were released). The recordings, including the test pressings that were not issued, were preserved by the Vance family, including the “Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase.” The melody has since become, “a darling number of the old time revival,” according to Kerry Blech, who opines that it was “a brilliant tune, exceedingly well-played” <ref>Kerry Blech, '''Old Time Herald''', vol. 6, no. 2, review of County 3511.</ref>. | ||
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|f_recorded_sources= | Vance took first prize in Mountain City, Tennessee, fiddlers’ convention held in May, 1925, beating Charlie Bowman and Uncle Am Stuart, who came in second and third, respectively. The contest has been made famous by a much-reproduced photograph of some of the contestants, including the elderly Uncle Am. Several years later, around 1930-32, Vance’s likeness, posed while playing the fiddle, was drawn by Appalachian artist Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) in a pencil, ink and sepia wash picture. A young Ralph Blizzard was influenced by Vance (along with Charlie Bowman and John Dykes) who lived not far from him. | ||
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The tune is labelled “Washington County Fox Chase” in the “Roots N' Blues - The Retrospective (1925-50)” collection. | |||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Dudley Vance () [Reiner & Anick]; Kirk Sutphin with the Hollow Rock String Band [Phillips]; Greg Canote (Seattle) [Silberberg]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2'''), 1995; p. 140. Reiner & Anick ('''Anthology of Fiddle Styles'''), 1989; p. 104. Silberberg ('''Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern'''), 2002; p. 157. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=County 525, Fiddlin' Dud Vance and his Tennessee Breakdowners - "A Fiddlers' Convention in Mountain City, Tennessee." County Records CD3511, Fiddlin' Dud Vance and his Tennessee Breakdowners – “Rural String Bands of Tennessee” (reissue recording). Yodel-ay-hee Records #108327, Critton Hollow Stringband - "Poor Boy" (1979). Wildgoose Records, Rattle on the Stovepipe – “8 More Miles” (2005). | |||
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TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN FOX CHASE. American, Reel (cut time). USA, Tennessee. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Silberberg): AABBCC' (Phillips): AA'BB'CC' (Reiner (Anick). Hunting motifs have lent themselves to descriptive musical pieces in several genres of traditional music on both sides of the Atlantic (c.f. the various “Fox Chase” tunes). “Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase” was recorded in 1927 by fiddler Dudley Vance and his group the Tennessee Breakdowners. Vance, a regionally popular fiddler from Bluff City, eastern Tennessee, travelled 150 miles to a recording session in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where the Breakdowners recorded six sides for OKeh Records (although only two were released). The recordings, including the test pressings that were not issued, were preserved by the Vance family, including the “Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase.” The melody has since become, “a darling number of the old time revival,” according to Kerry Blech, who opines that it was “a brilliant tune, exceedingly well-played” [1].
Vance took first prize in Mountain City, Tennessee, fiddlers’ convention held in May, 1925, beating Charlie Bowman and Uncle Am Stuart, who came in second and third, respectively. The contest has been made famous by a much-reproduced photograph of some of the contestants, including the elderly Uncle Am. Several years later, around 1930-32, Vance’s likeness, posed while playing the fiddle, was drawn by Appalachian artist Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) in a pencil, ink and sepia wash picture. A young Ralph Blizzard was influenced by Vance (along with Charlie Bowman and John Dykes) who lived not far from him.
The tune is labelled “Washington County Fox Chase” in the “Roots N' Blues - The Retrospective (1925-50)” collection.
- ↑ Kerry Blech, Old Time Herald, vol. 6, no. 2, review of County 3511.